Best Places For A Break Up — there aren’t any

LONELY Planet just sent a marketing email – Best Places For A Break Up. Attached is a list of varied and interesting areas around the globe, accompanied by glorious photography of places where you ought to try and station yourself if you are about to either give or receive that old it’s-not-you-it’s-me speech. (Picture by Jim Broadhead, Skerries.)

“Travel isn’t all honeymoons and smouldering romance,” says the blurb. “Why not heal your broken heart at these stunning destinations?”

Scroll down to a solitary woman standing forlornly outside a Rajasthani palace. “Fantastical settings ease the burden of heartache.” Really? Do they? Below is another setting, this time another solitary girl on a train platform in rural Japan. She looks like she might be about to jump. “Airport breakups are so awkward,” continues the blurb. “A train breakup on the other hand is so quick and seamless.” What, when you shove your now-ex in the path of an oncoming bullet train?